OPENING NIGHTJenna Blum

The Lost Family(Harper, 2018)

The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in her third novel, The Lost Family, an emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that spans generations. Jenna Blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own family and another lost before she was born. Blum’s debut novel, Those Who Saved Us, was the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize and a perennial book club favorite. Her second novel, The Stormchasers, followed to critical acclaim. She was voted one of the favorite contemporary women writers by Oprah.com readers. Blum is based in Boston where she teaches writing and is working on her fourth novel.